ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,453, issued on May 20, was assigned to Rosendahl Nextrom GmbH (Pischelsdorf, Austria).
"Apparatus and a method for processing an optical fiber unit" was invented by Toni Seppelin (Pischelsdorf, Austria), Petri Nieminen (Pischelsdorf, Austria) and Kimmo Simila (Pischelsdorf, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to an apparatus (1) for processing an optical fiber unit, the apparatus comprising an extruder head (2) with an inlet (6) receiving an optical fiber unit (7) including at least one optical fiber (24) and an outlet (4) outputting with a tube speed a produced tube (3), and a capstan (25) receiving and pas...